There have been at least five significant ice ages in Earth’s history, with approximately a dozen epochs of glacial expansion occurring in the past 1 million years. Humans developed significantly during the most recent glaciation period, emerging as the dominant land animal afterward as megafauna ...
000 years ago. Ice ages are normal cyclical events driven by a host of various factors such as solar activity, atmospheric composition, ocean currents, Earth's position in space, and continental movements, to name a few. The interaction between these factors is still the subject of intense ...
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth’s surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth’s climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods, during which there are no glaciers...
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English literature has sometimes been stigmatized asinsular. It can be argued that no single Englishnovelattains the universality of the Russian writerLeo Tolstoy’sWar and Peaceor the French writerGustave Flaubert’sMadame Bovary. Yet in the Middle Ages theOld English literatureof the subjugated Saxo...
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But in fact there have been many ice ages, most of them long before humans made their first appearance. And the familiar picture of an ice age is of a comparatively mild one: others were so severe that the entire Earth froze over, for tens or even hundreds of millions of years. ...
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‘Ice Bed’ ©Nima Sarikhani, Wildlife Photographer of the YearPeople’s Choice Awardwinner. •An image of a young polar bear drifting to sleep on a bed carved into an iceberg has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award.Nima Sarikhani’sIce Bed, and the four...